Pages 6 and 7

pages 2-5 (again)

redid the colour on the previously posted pages

page 1 (fixed colours)

I think I've fixed my problem with the insipid colours.. this is what I wanted them to look like..

lets hope they don't print too muddy..

wordle

so.. I wordled the blog..
here are the common words..

page 5

(sometimes my reach exceeds my grasp...)
edit 2/12/09 - Crap! on my home monitor the peeps at the bottom are a lustrous red.. on here they look pink! Crap!

page 4

page 3

edit - 2/10/09

soo.. for colouring these pages I recalibrated my monitor in order to closely approximate what the page would look like when printed. When viewing on my monitor the colours look rich and dark.. when viewing on other ('normal') monitors the colours look kinda washed out and weak..

page 2

as always... let me know if you see anything that needs 'improving'

page 1

so.. haven't heard from the publisher in a month or two (hopefully he's just busy...) so I'm going to post the pages here until I hear otherwise... hope you enjoy

btw.. this is the first page I've actually coloured so feel free to critique...

sneak peek..

here's the first page of that 'secret' thingy I'm working on..
from here on out I'll just post the occasional panel as I don't want to ruin the story for the publisher..

Trending....

so.... statisticians and analysts will have noticed that I have posted 10 fewer drawings for each of the last three years... (unintentionally, for the most part)
... but no more!

this is the year that I buck that trend..




he he.... he said buck...

prelims..

so.. here's a teaser of what I'm working on... these are rough pencils.. gives a little away but not too much..

shhhh.. it's a secret..

posting has been (and might continue) to be a bit slow as I'm working on something I don't want to talk about yet.

aelfseer page six is up..

link on the right..

calling all colourists....

(to paraphrase kevin keegan) I would love it if someone with the skills wanted to colour or tone any of the aelfseer pages...
just send an email to cheekyfish at gmail dot com and I'll send you a high res version..
and of course I'll post with all due credits...

any takers?

aelfseer page 5 posted on the aelfseer blog..

here's a teaser panel.. full page is here

might make this into a banner..

aelfseer page 4

the whole thing (so far) can be seen properly at the lnk to the right..

'nother aelfseer page..

redoing aelfseer as a black and white comic (with two spot colours)

so.. not really black and white.. but you know what I mean...

as it's election day..

..today in the US, I thought I'd better post something to commemorate...



actual drawings to resume next week...

redid the page .. what can I say.. I'm a redoer..

looks better this time out..

page 1 of diner .... done

let me know what you think...

new and improved (?) pencils for page 1 of 'diner'

pencils for page 1 of "diner"

and hit my self imposed deadline too...

tiny sketch is back!

this started out as a doodle and ended up looking quite like Lionel Messi (I think)..

just to get that last page off the screen....

here's a newsboy 'icon' that I just knocked up for a newsletter at work.. went for a Raymond kinda thing on the trousers.. partly successful..

new spicyspacetales page

shouldn't have taken this one on.. too much real life going on at the mo' and this is a little too rushed looking..
ah well..
c'est la vie..

AELFSEER page 2

AELFSEER page 1

I'm going to set something up to view these pages properly as I post them.. in the meantime here's a taster.. page 1 of Aelfseer.

new banner.. so here's the old banner..

.. and I'm not dead... just very pale..

been busy.. very busy.. but now I'm all jazzed and stuff.. so there will be more frequent postings...

here's my turn for the spicyspacetales blog (see links) ==>

new banner

SpicySpaceTales pages 1 and 6

right then, here are (my) page 1 and page 6 of the Spicy Space Tales story.. it's clipping along nicely..

Panel from spicyspacetales

here's a panel from the spicyspacetales page (to encourage you to go look) at

http://www.spicyspacetales.blogspot.com

and yes.. it's supposed to be blurry.. they're vibrating...

posted on the other blog..

I called dibs on the first page on the Spicy Space Tales blog (see my links on the right there ===>)..
go take a look and comment if you feel so inclined..

EDIT -- btw. enjoyed it.. it was fabbo...

If I didn't care about my stuff being "good"...

then I'd probably enjoy this more...

but unfortunately I do (care).. which means unfortunately I don't (enjoy it)

I guess I have to learn to draw for fun..

"bing bing".. take the shame...

building page 1 (rough)

page 1 panel 1 rough

yup.... built a restaurant in sketchup..

diggin' on some Yu at the moment..

pentel brush pen, whiteout pen and prismacolor grey markers on a scrap of cardboard..

busy again.. so here's two more 'tiny sketches'

one for Flint...

got the final cut of Bladerunner for my birthday recently..

messed about with one of my life drawings..

I think I like it..
still not really a painting though.. more of a coloured drawing..

100th post..

still alive..
lots of stuff happened whilst I was gone.. some nice, some not so nice..
and it was my birthday this weekend....

anyway.. here's a post (and there'll be lots more coming.. new leaf and all that gubbins..)

99th post

been very busy with real life recently so I apologise for the lack of posts (while going over 1000 visitors too..)
I'll get to gettin' and make sure that my 100th post is worth looking at..

coming soon....

(edit - post 99b - going back to blighty for a couple of weeks so will put up the 100th post when I get back)